Showing His Love
Are you praying that God will use you to show His love to someone around you today? I am convinced that it is God’s desire to hear that prayer. His desire is wonderfully expressed in the life of Abraham.
God tells Abraham “enough is enough” and that He would finally judge Sodom & Gemorrah. Abraham is put in an incredible position to begin to ‘bargain, haggle’ with God to see lives spared. Abraham begins to ask God if He will bring about this judgment if fifty righteous individuals are found there. Abraham continually tries to get the numbers down to the point where he feels it is safe and so he finally ends at ten. But as we read this account we gain the sense that Abraham may have quit asking before God was ready to stop granting Abraham’s request. There is a clear longing expressed in God’s gracious accommodation of Abraham that challenges us to the fact that God wants us to love those around us as greatly as He does. Remember—“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
Again, are you praying that God will use you to show His love to someone around you today? Take a moment to invest in a life and then extend an invitation for that person to join us on Sunday for Friends Sunday.
Have you invited a person who does not have a church home to Friends Sunday this Sunday?
You still have time.